#Santa Marinella was a throwaway line in chapter 1

[lostinfic]

Chapter 6/8: Family Reunion

Pairing: Cesare x Lucrezia Borgia

Rating: E

May 1944 In her most desperate hours, Lucrezia seeks refuge in memories of the beach in Santa Marinella, where Cesare used to take her. She plays them like a movie in her mind. She sits in a slice of sunshine on the bed and closes her eyes. The red velvet curtains part, the projector reels and on the screen of her eyelids, Cesare’s smile appears. His smile always seemed brighter, unburdened, on those days they left Rome and their worries behind. In the next scene, she sees herself, younger, holding down her straw hat as she looks out the open train window. Her chest would swell with a feeling of freedom. She imagines that’s how it will feel when she gets out of here. Today, she’s too impatient to review the details of those beach trips, and skips straight to a slow motion scene of Cesare coming out of the water, his strong body glistening wet. Oh, how her breath would catch in her throat at the sight of him. And then how blessedly cool his skin would feel against her sun-heated one...